Leave my mom out of this.

Sending emails, opening files, checking the database. Those are quite mundane everyday tasks of every office clerk.

Copy, cut, paste, undo. Use those keyboard shortcuts and if you work with documents for a notable part of the day you will save a half day a year or so.

I'm going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.

Type ; in JS or C.

I click the left mouse button more often each day, also when you work in a production facility you have a bunch of repetitive tasks, automating them is pretty much was humanity did in the last century.

I have a lot of repetition in my job (CAD modeller). Even just knowing keyboard shortcuts & setting up shortcuts for frequently used operations can easily net me 5 seconds per operation. I want to spend my energy on solving the task at hand, not on how to use the tool in the moment. I don't want to move the mouse away from the work area if I can help it.

Maybe not as frequent 5 per day - but scripts for really bottom of the barrel stuff:

• Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
  • zoom out ensures drawing can be identified from document thumbnail.
  • the software is known to crash, especially editing drawings.
  • easy 10mins duplicated work saved.
• Printing all open drawings out to the office printer in order with a delay between them, so i don't spend the next 20 minutes manually sorting the drawing prints.
  • printers don't always print in incoming order, some documents take longer to process.
• find/replace for text notes
  • the software doesn't have that feature.

Space space space space

Consider using an auto formatter. I just barf my code into the editor, press a magic key combo and it’s all formatted better than I could do by hand.

Write emails? At 250min, or 4 hours it’s either a major repetitive work task or a hobby.

Remember though, this is the amount of time savings something has to represent.

So you still have to accomplish the task.

I nolonger write emails chatgpt does that for me

I work on business intelligence, and part of my job is automatize processes, like comercial team updates excel files and those updates needs to be updated on the database so the dashboards show the latest version. I could do the update manually, but I don't like do that and wrote a python script that do that for me.

DevOps for me in hardware (chip design/verification)

You would thing a bunch of engineers would know how to use conputers, but no, they are good at chip deign. Automating stuff for them gives insane benefits and scale.